According to General Prosecutor's press office, the results of the elections were falsified at polling stations in Zheleznodorozhyi city (Moscow region), Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Tyumen, Cheliabinsk, Novosibirsk, and 3 polling stations in Osh city.

Although Sarah Davies highlights only hostile messages on the ballot papers from the elections of the 1930s, (68) the secret reports released from the Cheliabinsk archive reveal that many voters wrote patriotic and politically loyal messages and slogans (including praises for Stalin, the Party, or the government) on their ballots along with other messages (including complaints of shortages, denunciation of certain candidates, and requests for what they needed) during the elections of the postwar Stalin era.

Well before the widely publicized nuclear contamination at Chernobyl in 1986, a catastrophic release of radioactive material in 1957 had caused hundreds of square miles of agricultural land south of Cheliabinsk to be permanently evacuated.

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